The Eugene guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1924-1930, March 07, 1925, Image 6

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    I Pnge Six
THE EUGENE GUARD
Saturday Evo11ig.
rch 7
UftiHERALDED BOUT
. WITHFIGHTERDi
STRANGLER LEWIS ADMITS THAT
WAYNE MUNN OUTSMARTED HIM
Veteran Wrestler Attempts No Excuses In Explaining His
Defeat at Hands of 'Younoer Man
iug 0 fret 4 l.'MO inches- He cleared
11 feet 6 inch en in the pule vault
without being pressed and a'to gar
nered thirda in tiie shot and hurdle
events. As a high jumper, many ex
perts are touting hi in as a Becoud ilur
old Oaborne,
The University of Oregon banket
ball team, accompanied by Luaeb
Ke.nhart, will leave Lugene at 4:ilU
o'clock this afternoon lur Oorvadia.
where it is to meet Oregon Agricul
tural college at 7:110 o clock in the
second game of a three-gume senei
for the championship of tne northern
section of tiie l'uciiic coast confer
ence. A victory for Oregon will throw the
series into a te, a Aggie wvu
ihe tirsi game Ueie 'murtuuy, lo to
12. unU w.li uei.eoiiu.e xttv piuyiug
ul the thud auu .deciding gtime jiou-
i! nay uiglit. A w.u lor lue AggeH,
(i S. however, will give mem the l-i.hiu-
I p.onship and u in. id game will be uu-
'! ueveHbury,
;4' i A telegram from Curl Lodell, grad-
1 ? uale munagei- oi Oiegyu Agueuuuml
5 college, revealed the lact liut Uie
2 third game, it plitjeil, Will be oil tlie
j Miluiueiie itnivcr.it tioor at halein,
, I instead of the Muiioouuih ctub court
, ? in i urtluiid, a m uiigiuaiiy whin-
' ued. lie said that if tue Aggie w.u
i the sene they will iiaj CJi-ioruia,
tf champion of me aouiiicin section of
the i'ai'Mic count conieience, ai or
t X vaiiiH Thursday, Friday and Satim
f day for the coiiierence chumpiouidhp.
3 3 Okerberg, sielJjir center of the Ore-
i gon tjuime., may not start. Ite.ntmrt
J a.d, an he neeiim to be tired out be
i 1 cuusu of the strenuous schedule. He
ytMu hurt been suiter. ng from a spra.u
ed aiiivle, biisiaiiied in tne Washing
ton Statu college game at i'utiuuiu
una week.
If Okeruerg is unable to start,
" lteinhurt suni he would move Jout
' iroiit guard to center uud would play
! Guutber at guard. The team would
, theu line up as follows: Uowiins and
ji 'I llubsoii, forwatiU;'.losl, center; Gun
5 Uier and Wesiergren, guard.
? f Ths WebfonterK will huvu tlistlr f nil
j Jutmad at Corviilhs, rendi tu jump" In -f.
a to the fray, if necessity. Itcinlmrt
g will laKe tne ionow.uk piayer: rion
Z sou, (iownns, Frank Iteuiluirt, (Jiilen-
A waters, Llewellyn, Ukerherg, (.titles,
? Hughes, Jon!, Uunther, Carter, Wes-
tcrgren, Stoddard nttd Anderson.
A block of IUU tickeiH, alloted to
Oregon, were sold by Wednesday, and
3 the others who plan lo go from here
I will have to pay the full admission
j price.
i . Through the order of the "O" lel
termen's orgttnixailon, the game will
I be given play by play at Villard hall
tonight, starting at 7:.'i0 o'clock. The
contest will be transmitted by tele-
phone from the Aggie gym.
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Johnson has mat i
Record for 11 Years
Today's Cross-Word Puzzle
Try to solve this puzzle without the use of a dictionary. Kvery
word is of common occurrence. Besides, the words key together easily.
1 B-155
"The kid
Billy Evans Says
By BILLY EVANS
IN BASEBALL, the game's greatest
mighty hard to get their boNe hits. At
inch times the batter is said to be in
j b slump.
In golf) the leading professionals
have their bnd stretches of play. They
aoem to do everything wrong:. At such
A times they are said to be off their
$ game.
K A falling off in pliy by the greatest
sturs In the various rports is difficult i the hold with my left arm ami turn
of explanation. No expert has ever I tn.v body In such n way as to keep
I & come forward with j logical explami-1 Jhinn at a safe distance.
b t ..I - .1.. .
i cd feom time to time.
h
By JOK WILIJAMM
JTKW YOliK, March 7.
fn Ibis short, succinct sentence Kd
Htrnngler Lewis admitted to me to-
day he deserved to be beaten by Big
Wnyne Alunn .in the memornhle
wrestling match which cost the vpt
eran hendlot k genius his heavyweiglit
title.
Lewis has no alibis to present.
Nor does he seek to belittle the for
mer Nebraska football star's great
ness as a wrestler.
"I was in pretty good condition
that night, and 1 knew Munn was
anything but a setup. 1 figured I
knew more about the technique of
the sport than he and I banked on
my knowledge to offset his treinen-dou-
size.
"i knew, too, his best hold was a
crotch and half Nelson. A man his
site can murder anybody with that
hold so I conceived a plan by which
I hoped to evade it. The plan, in
short, was to headloek him at every
opportunity, and release tho lock
gradually whenever ho seemed dan
gerous. Munn Watched His Arm
'This meant that I would trade
lihn n headloek for a crot e'u, or
rather, release the lock in order to
escape the crotch. It worked well
three or four times. I would release
f Regardless of the greatness of the
f. mlnr tlm in.mmut tin ulimitw In III ft
i play he sUrts to press. This is the
i; wont thing he could possibly do.
....
Cue of Ruth.
There Is no pmyer in baseball who
i can lilt them hnrder or further than
!K I Babe ltuth. Yet for one week last
! season the big fellow had his troubles
i driving the ball nut of the infield,
Until like nil players slarts to wnr-
ry the mo in put the base hits cease.
13 After three days of feeble efforts.
I uo tiied that he fhiflcd his style
5 every lime he cuinc to bat,
3 The firm time up he Mood in the
'$ rear of the box, held the bat at the
very end and took two or three steps
v into the h.ill before Hurting his swing,
j A pop fly reunited.
The next time up he choked up on
the bat, grasping it ..bout six inches
t; 'f from the end. lie stood well up in the
; V front of the box and hit from a flat
j S footed stance. A weak grounder to
I the firt hHMetnnn resulted.
' v A different style every time at bat
,i anil no improvement made the Babe
I betievn he was losing the old batting
4 J
After the gnme, on his way to the
(- f club house he hapiiened to be walkinu
1 just hfhind tne. "What's wrong with
my style at the plate?" he queried.
"But always he would come hack
apparently trying the same tactics
without any vnrintion whatever. I
said to myself, "This boy is simple.
1 It kuows but one way of doing
things. He lacks craftiness.' AYhile
these thoughts wero stilt running
through my mind Win 11 proceeded to
convince me he was far from simple.
"The next time I released the
headloek and dropped my left arm
he reached clear around my back
and pinned the arm to my body. In
another instant he hail gained a
crotch and half Nelson and I felt
myself tiemg urteii suddenly from
tho flor by a pair of powerful arms.
Jn another second I experienced the
sensation of flying head foremost
through space.
"I remember little cInp about the
match. They teil me .Munn picked
me up bodily and threw me from
tho ring. 1 don't remember it. I
don't remember coming hack and
wrestling a third fall at all. though
it is recorded that I did. Xor do I
even remember going to the hospital
the next dny whore I remained for
two weeks.
Return Match Inevitable
"Looking back on the match 1 can
see how smart Munn really was. He
was watching the position of my left
arm when I withdrew it from the
headloek. He watched it just long
enough to know when und whern to
reach for it and when his moment
came he made the most of it. Don't
let 'em tell you he isn't smnrt."
Lewis tells you he will not be
tricked again when the two come
together in a return mntch. which is
inevitable. Lewis thinks Munn can
be benten if you keep away from his
crotch and half Nelson, and he says
this can be done rather easily if you
keep your wits about you. "I'll make
him come to me the next time and
wear him down," promises the ex
champ. This mntch will be staged in the
summer, and will undoubtedly draw
the biggest purse of any wrestling
mntch in the history of the country.
It may even double the figures , of
the (totch-I Inckenschmidt match at
Chiengo a dozen years ago when the
"gate" pnsHed $S0,000.
Three promoters nro after tho
match. 1'ltimntely it will go either
to Chicago, Knnsns City or Michigan
City, Ind. Floyd Fitzsimmons. who
promoted the CarpentJer-tiibbons
fight Inst summer, has offered the
grapplers a guarantee nf $."iO,MiO
with a percentage rut of 00 to the
winner and 40 to the loser.
By NKA Service v
WASHINGTON, March 7. The
greatest tribute to AValter Johnson's
prowess as a pitcher can be found
111 the games won column.
If a pitcher wins 20 bull games dur
ing the season s play he has had
most suci'fSHful year. Johnson has
turned that trick 11 time.
F rom 1 it 1 ( 1 to HHy. cf ive ri ng a
period of 10 nt-anons. Johnson won
lifi or more game every year. In nix
of the lit earn he won tTi or more
games.
Johnson's beat season was In lOl.'i,
when he turned in 3(i victories and
suffered only seven defeats, a most
marvelous record. The year previ
ous he won .'I- giines.
Winning 2d or more games for 10
consecutive sensons is a record of
which few pitchers can boast.
Hi TITLE TEAMS
' John J.
hia New-
see a guyV fnults better than he
can."
Seeing that Babe was really serious
I merely told him that he whmiI hit
t'ng natural. Instead of cutting nt the
ball In his regulnr style he was doing
his stuff differently each time.
"Sure, but I have been in ft Mump
o long I just can's make up my mind
what is my natural style."
By constant experimenting ltuth
thrown himself mi far out of his stride
thsl he found it practically impossible
to be natural.
Don't Press
It is h fact that stars In any sport
come nut of a slump a suddenly ss
they went into it. Apparently afier
having exhausted all their experi
ments there In nothing left for them
to do but be natural, immediately they
recover the lost form.
1'sunlly the free nwlngeriT in any
sport are more liable to experience
dumps than ihe chop hitters. It sp
RUSSELL REAL ATHLETE
(By NKA Service)
CHICAGO, March 7. University
of Chiengo seems to have n promis
ing looking athlete In ltuuM). who
made such a splendid showing in the
recent dmil meet with Indiana.
Ilusel1, by virtue of his sensa
tional work ngiiust the Hoosiers.
stacks up as one of tho best all
around athletes Stagg has had in
Mme seasons.
NEW YORK, March 7.
poleon had his "Waterloo,'
McOrnw his Thiladelphiu,
York and his Washington,
Like the conquests of the great
French general, those of the gray
haired stocky of Truxton, N. Y.f have
been accomplished on a steady, thorough-going
'manner in the realm of
baseball. Jle has climbed the heights
ami remained three with n persist
ency thnt defied the at tucks of Na
tional league enemies for four yearn.
In llHio, with his remarkable lieu
tenant, Christy Mathewsou, standing
on the firing line, the man who has
been flubbed "Little Napoleon" was
supreme. He captured a world cham
pionship. But his forces were fngged out and
struggled for six years without wag
ing n world series. Tht-n clime the
rout of Philadelphia, when ( 'onnte
Mnck's great inner defense and hi
marvelous siege gum. Bender, Plank
and Coombs riddled the ranks of, the
(innts and bore them back down the
hill. Mctlraw bore lo the front in
1012 and lfM.'l to be hurled back by
the AVhite Sox and Ued Sox.
Again the faltering lines were
drawn together and 1021 found thein
nt bay in their own territory. Led
by tlje (iiant Phil Houglns, the slim
Jess Barnes and the midget Artie
Neb f, t he world pennant became
theirs in ei ;ht hard fought games.
Again in 1922 they wero victorious
hut fell before their natural enemies,
the Yankees, in 1023. Last year the
march on 'Washington was stayed by
the brilliant young federal Stanley
(Buckley) Harris, and the grand old
campaigner, Walter Johnson.
Washington may lmvo been the
Waterloo for MeCJrnw. For several,
years he has directed his soldiers
from n position behind the lines.
where once he rode with thein. Two
more years may see his retirement
for he hns become old in the service
and his scot in government is await
ing him. lie is now vice-president
of his club. j ,
McfJraw wnsbnrn In 1S".'l and
stifted to play baseball ihout th
time he .learned to toddle. For 3."
years be has been In the professional
nunc, his first engagement being: with
Olean, N. V.. . whence b progresec5
to Cedar Rapids. A major leng't-
scout then took the youthful "Mmr
gy' to Baltimore. Tn August 101,
MrOrnW faw his first fast company
service and for a year he snt on th,
bench, but in 1S02 he went to sec
ond bnse. where Ned TTanlon quickly
learned thnt Ms protege was a good
third baseman who soon became the':
best fielder of bunts the nntlonnl
enme had seen. Tn 1000, with Wilbert
Uobinson. nnnther who was to be
come a famous manager. McOrnw
was sold to St. Louis, but aligned
himself with Bryon Bancroft John
son, when tho American League wp
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2. Sniroor.
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4. A color.
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Pastries. .
1'rinter's measure' (pi.)
Within.
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Chalks.
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Kunning away.
Satisfied.
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'J'ender tissues.
Fatigues.
Windows.
Male progeny.
Guided.
To shut in.
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A mnte voice.
Trunk of a statue.
A parent.
Ill feeling.
Ourselves.
Homestic.
Skin blemishes.
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Turf.
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Fish and Game
natural surroundings. Tals condition
has been brought about more rupidly,
due to the world war, wiith its result
unt unheard-of fur prices.
When muskruts jumped up from 40
cents to $1 and beavers from $5 to
?."(, with other fur prices in propor
tion, the trapper worked overtime,
the farmer boy turned trappVr, the
settler and his family became no
madic, and the makers of steel traps
enjoyed unusual business.
The dropping of prices paid for
raw furs baa not brought back the
animals, nor will it, for prices are
still high and furs are in demand.
The JnUimi trapper always left
"Beed" for next year's catch. The
white trapper, following hord on the
heels of the red man, guthcrod up this
n u-over crop, ah a result there are
hundreds of thousands of miles of
trapping country that wus good a few
years ago which is "cleaned" today.
This condition is indeed appalling
over the hunting grounds of many of
the Indian tribes.
The Indian does two things well
fishes and hunts. lie is by nature
inisuited to agriculture. lie hates it.
He is by do means a success as a
woodchopper or river driver.
Venr by year finds the Hudson Ray
posts moving farther and farther
back into the fur country. How far
back can they go and still be in fur
country? Of course that is another
story; as is the old query. of "what's
to become of the Indian?"
The fur of tomorrow is to coinu
from tho fur form. Today there are
fox farms in California, Minnesota
and Maine. Likewise in a dozen other
states.
The Lake Erie shores' of New York
slate and Ohio are lined with fur
farms. These are for tho most part
silver black fox ranches. However,
muskrats, rnccoons, skunks and other
furs are being cultivated in increasing
number.
H is tho conditions here set forth
that form reasons why publicity de
partments of railways, states and
provinces no longer make recommen
dations to those seeking suitable
trapping country.
4
I The Referee
Who was Ilritish oppn golf cham
pion in 11)23? T. li. F.
Arthur li. Havers.
.
Dopii Max C'aroy of the Pirates
bat 'left or right-handed? fr F. h
Both.
.
Did T.ilis Firpo ever fight Jess Mil
liard, if so, what was the result? II.
F. It. '
Yes, Firpo kayoed Willard in
pight rounds in 1023.
Big Baseball Stars
o
NEW YoitK M. v
pi.n.psey and th.'X J 7J
lone comiuiwioB ar ". rk'"".-i
"PenuiK in , unl,,,,, !
'''"s ineir punches
tinent. Hi,
from out of the Atlan.i
yesterday t.,lle ,
crown, which earrieo "fi
the heavyweight kin. U
Vork commit' : ." " 'k.:
i-'Kht up and My wiu,!.,1 "
whpther lie
challenge from 1Urrj '; i
negro heavyweighu tJ
At the tame lime ri,h. ,
lowed explnmin,. ,h,t "'f', T'
carefully considered , M
he n,,g.ht take coiai ',!eU '
that loinmy Uibdons has L
a ehnllange which heToui
title holder to look .v., J ,b!
of making a bargain, fler i, IT"
posed of the Will. ch ... h,t-
no gutdfa rh
Jack Kearns, who euirf-. ,u. .
pion's destinies, pnrrid thMw1'
with another that flatlr xm
ork comnus.ion that it ,h0ud Z
in us own yard and not trMlt. '
Uempsey would not be
any body of men ulf8a ,IPy
to promote the fight for him. N
Three Teams are,
Still in Running
BEND, Ore., Mnrpb
Btot,
By NEWTS ACKEKMAN
YIIKIlK W'H we get the furs of
tomorrow?
The beaver, mink, otter, fisher.
marten, fox, muskrnt und all other years
varieties 01 wiki tur-tiearers are rap- in 1IVJ4. Fielded .01)3 in HHi.'l,
miy npproacning tneir doom, under j high mark in the majors.
Henry Severeld
Horn Story City, In., .Tune 3,
1801. Catcher, St. Louis Browns.
Major League Career Sold In 1910
to Ciniciunnti Hods by Ottumwn of
Central association. Sold by Heds in
UH't to Louisville, American associa
tion, for claim on players. Sold by
Louisville to Itrowns in 11H4.
Outstanding Keats Has dropped
but one foul fly ball in the last 10
Had 1.14 assists in 1 HO games
the
. auu ,loou UlVer remijn
the, running for first houomhi tt.
central Oregon, mid-Coliimbii dUtritt
tournament as the result of yW,r'
day's game. ,
Trineville and Hood Hirer will m
in n semi-fiiml pnine tliitt afteron
and the winner will piny Bend tuoi-it
for the championship. .
Prinevillc surprised ererjon tf,.
terdfly by defeating IiedrnomJ bj i
score of 10 to IS. Hood Kim
given a hard gattle by the SUtm
team, but the cloncst game wu be
tween Mitchell ami Itr-tid, the locu
winning by a score of J to Zi. .
Ashland Defeats
. . Medf ord Quintet
MEHKOIil), Ore., March i.-Com-pletely
upsetting the dope, Ashlan-i
high school basketball team defeatel
the Medford high school here list
night by a score of IS to 14, leading
by one point nt the end of the firt
half, and playing Medford off iierfrtt
in the Becond. Medford had defeatH
Ashland twice and needed but one
game for the southren Oregon cham
pionship. It Ashland wius at A-
laud tonight, the deciding game jr.!
be played on a neutral floor, prober
in ltoscburg, to see which team rep
resents this section in the state tournament.
unjESt i iMrKTl i dJ'BtI
T Snort Talk T
f most famous fights In
lightweight division history was
that between Joe 0:it,s and Battling
Nelson nt (Joldfield, Nev., in Septem
ber, .10011,
born. It was then Mint McfJraw or
ganized I be Baltimore Orioles that
have been made famous down through
the venrs.
Two years later the team was d!s- j weight championship of the world.
organised and the lending third base
man laid nide bis spiked shoes and
It was scheduled as a finish fight
but terminated in the 4-d round
when the decision was given to Gans
foul. With it went the light-
Hii favorite events are the high j tho Into John T. 1rnh called him
jump, pole vault, slmt put nnd hurd-jtn the helm thnt he has handled ex
les. In the former he set n new Tec- portly for nearly a quorter of a een
nrd for Bartlett gymnasium by leap- tury.
Gans got something like $11,000
for his end of the pure, while Nelson
drew down around $2'J,5O0, that be
ing the split decided upon before the
fight, regardless of tho outcome.
Babfl Worried
i : T laughed at the question and inei
J ; dentally gnve the Babe renrnm to guf-
. fiiu- vtitn 1 Intd him llml if tin
i 1 quit a jnke for a blind umpire to tell near much easier for the frcn (wing
: : to same's greatest baiter what was er to lose co ordination than the
' i' ailing him. "choke" bntsinnn.
i "I'm not kidding. Bill," he replied.
' "I certainly must be doing something The hardeat lesson to learn, how
;( wrong and some one rle can always ever, is not to prs when in trouble.
SHOOT
Ham & Bacon
Shoot
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SUNDAY,
March 8th, 1925
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